Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-06

ley and San Juan mines; at Pueblo over
the Denver and Rio Grande, it will make
a direct route to Leadville and all the
mining towns and camps, and at Colorado
! Springs over the Colorado Midland to
Leadville, Aspen and Glendale.
FORT WORTH AND SOUTHEASTERN.
wOoDyILLE NOW SPEAKS AND JOINS
! CROCKETT AND FORT WORTH IN THE
WORK.
Fort WORTH, TEX, March 5, 1857.
To the Editor of the Gazette:
l herewith hand you recent CORE
spondence which cannot fail to be Of in
terest to those looking to the construc-
ton of railway from this city to the
southeastern portion Of the state. l am
persuaded that the people understand its
importance, and are determined to Sc
cure it. Crockett has spoken. A meet
ing of prominent citizens has been held
there, and it was proposed to prepare at
once an exhaustive address, setting forth
the wonderful resources of that section
of country. This town has begun cor
respondence with other towns on the
line, looking to the appointing of COM
mittee from each to meet in general con-
! ference at time and place to be desig-
mated. This is beginning to look like
business, and it is to be hoped that
the other towns will not be
slow to follow the example of
Crockett. Woodyille is coming to the
front, as the following letter of a recent
date will show. Hon. S. B. Cooper OF
Woodville, ex-State Senator, and at pres
emit Internal Revenue Collector for his
district, with office at Galveston, to
whom l am indebted for valuable aid,
among other things, writes me SIS follows:
"The people of this county are very
anxious to have the road constructed to
this place, and will cheerfully aid in its
construction by bonus or otherwise to
the extent of their ability. l am conf
dent they would donate the right Of way
through the county, and give the necessa-
ry depot grounds, etc.
"To the projectors l think it will be g
financial success. In fact, l think it will
be the best paying road in the state.
Intersecting the Sabine and East
Texas Railway at Woodville, it has
an outlet to the only absolutely certain
deep water on the coast. Since the last
experiment or work done at Sabine Pass
no one doubts the certainty of obtaining
deep water at the Pass. The depth of
water is continually increasing, and the
completion of the work begun there is
destined to accomplish all we hope for.
Having obtained deep water at Sabine
Pass,you can readily see what an immense
northwest territory is tributary to that
point on the seaboard, and the products
hauled to and fro will necessarily pass
over this line of road. Aside from this,
this road will penetrate the finest pineries
in Southeast Texas. When it reaches
WoodVille it will have the carrying to the
northwest VI the lumber OFF of sixty
miles of road, the Sabine and
East Texas Railway. This road runs
through the pineries for sixty miles, and
alon5 its line are valuable lumber manu-
featuring plants. The construction of
mis- road will furnish the facility for the
shipment of this lumber to the northwest,
something that cannot now be done eX
cept by tOrtuOus route and at great eX-
pense. Not only the mills mentioned, |
and those that would be constructed on |
the line of said road, but the large mills |
at Beaumont and Orange would ship |
their lumber and shingles by this route. |
81 might add other reasons why | think |
this would be q paying road. II desired, |
| will give you description of the coun-
try in Southeast Texas through which this |
road Will run, /. e., the timber, soil and |
topography Of the country"
John II Kirby, Esq, prominent at !
torney of Woodville, says: "Our people |
are very much excited over the prospect /
of railway connection with Fort Worth. | |
sm very much in hope that the road will |
be built Immediately. Knowing but little |
of the character of the country through |
which the proposed line will pass before |
it reaches the pineries, | am not in o pO- |
sition to give an opinion as to the advan- |
tages attending the enterprise in so far |
as that section is concerned. But once |
the road has penetrated the yellow pine |
region of Southeast Texas, no doubt can !
be entertained of its success. The value |
of yellow pine lumber is known all over
the country, and the advantages |
of connection with our forests are |
known by all our railroad companies.
The best pay ro@1s in the state to-day |
are those having pineTy connections A
few counties here, in territorial limits |
less than the one hundredth part of the |
state, are furnishing nearly all Texas |
and portions of Missouri, Kansas and |
Nebraska and other states and territories |
with lumber and shingles. The carrying |
trade is simply immense, and on the
line, i. y j. .,ment, would be
far greater than upon any that could be
Its western connections
would be more favorable to the lumber
trade than that OF any other line, and in
this eastern section it would penetrate
the finest pineries in the state-the he@rt
of the Texas forests.
"The people want the road and will
subscribe as literally as their circum-
stances will allow. At Woodville they
are much interested and will donate
literally. The company will find Us
active in the matter and doing all we can
to further an enterprise Offering mutual
advantages of so much moment"
Stephen 2. West, ESQ, leading attOr-
ney of WOodville, says: 1.-THE people of !
this county are anxious for a road from
your place to this place, and extending |
into the pineries here and beyond. This !
road would give this section a direct .
route northwest for its lumber and e |
direct route over which we could bring
our grain and other supplies. This would |
be of immense value to US and would |
make the road very renumerative 10 the ,
builders. 1t would run through almost {
solid pinery from where il would strike !
the timber belt until it reached this |
place, and by extending it little south /
OF east from this place il would pass
through a solid pinery from this place to /
tina Sabine river, and even beyond, and |
woIld go over comparatively level I.
The road would be Of compare
lively easy cOnstru ction from CarTigan to .
would subscribe 10 the extent of their I.
ability. We trust that You will use your
influence to secure the building Of The |
road"
E. G. Geisendorff, Esq a prominent at
tnrneu writes. 81 will say that in re-